Female Angel

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67chevelle

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Jul 30, 2008
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I have had my pair of angels for almost 2 years now in a community tank and thought that they were the same sex.Then this weekend,the female started to vigorously clean off a leaf of a sword in the tank,and her breeding tube became obvious.I got my camera out and took a few pics of her.
She was beating up on the male,and had chased all the other fish in the tank to the other end of it.So I decided to move her and the plant into a tank by themselves yesterday.Everything seemed to be going fine,but when I got home tonight,she had eaten all the eggs off the sword leaf.
So it was a busy weekend for some of my fish.The angels breed for the first time,and my Cons eggs hatched,this happens every few weeks though :). But I took some pics,so I thought I would share them.

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Nice looking angel....
 
Cool!
That is a pretty angel, too. I guess she has to learn how to be a parent! lol
 
I believe that the male comes along after the eggs are laid and fertilizes and tends them. This may be why the female ate them - you didn't give him a chance to fertilize them. Although, I think they might be the same sex. It would normally be the male that cleans the spot beforehand. Sometimes, with only females, they will take on both roles, and the eggs don't get fertilized.
 
I'm still not sure if they are both females,even though that is what I had always expected,and still suspect they might be.I tried to get a pic of the silver one when the striped one was laying the eggs,it's breeding tube was a lot smaller.And before I moved the sword with the eggs on it,there where 3 or 4 eggs that were white,and the others had darkened up a bit.
It's probably best for now that she ate the eggs.I don't really have any room for more tanks,(but I could find some if I really needed to;)),and the community tank the angels are in is overstocked,and if the eggs had hatched,I don't know what I would have done.
I just found it a bit odd,that after almost 2 years,the one laid eggs.
 
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